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John, I have held off on introducing myself to the list, as I wanted to 
observe a bit first.

Let me introduce myself to you.  I am the brainwashed DIR cult member 
that shot the video in question.  Nice to meet you too.

My wife and I have been diving for 15 months.  In that fifteen months, 
we've learned a lot about diving, and we've learned that we have a 
(whole) lot more to learn.

One lesson I learned is that as far as divers go, in fifteen months time 
I can kick the crap out of a PADI Master Instructor in my buoyancy 
skills.  I don't attribute this to some innate ability that I have - I 
attribute it to superior training.

We are not technical divers, and we aren't cavers, although we both have 
some interest in developing our skills in this direction, I don't have 
any agenda except to improve as a diver and improve as a photographer, 
to do both safely, and to have big time fun.

For me there is no competition between philosophies - I'm going to do 
whatever works best for me to accomplish my goals.  I have been very 
pleased with the RESULTS of my DIR training, which are evident directly 
from this video, and indirectly from my photography (not bad for a guy 
with only a year's experience, don't you think?)

So - answer me this:  If you were a new diver choosing an instructor - 
do you want the dude hanging on the rope teaching you how to dive, or do 
you want the people who taught the guy holding the video camera?

We had just come up from the HMCS Columbia - it looks to me like we were 
the ones who belonged there and the PADI Master Instructor was a bit out 
of his league - wouldn't you agree?

I don't know George Irvine at all - never met him.  But I have learned 
from the techniques that he, apparently, helped to define and refine.  
That does not make me a cult member - it makes me an educated consumer.

If you have questions about our diving, please email me.  I would be 
happy to discuss with you why we dive, how we dive, and what diving 
means to us.

Thank you very much for you kind understanding.

-David Evans
www.diveseen.com
Northwest Underwater Photography and Videography



On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 06:18 PM, John P. Butler wrote:

> Yah, This video spoke to me, too.
> It told me that the participants were brainwashed DIR cult members who 
> have
> nothing better to do underwater than make a friggin propaganda video.
>
> Tell me what quarry were you diving in? ;O}
>
> John

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